Prep Your PC for Windows 7

When Windows 7 drops this Thursday, you can either spend many, many hours watching a progress bar, or you can boot into a clean, speedy system with that new-OS smell. Let's get your system set up for a proper Windows 7 upgrade.
Prep Your PC for Windows 7

What You Still Don't Know About You

After however many years of living, do you still have things about yourself, who you are and how your brain works that you don't entirely understand? To celebrate their 150th issue, the email version of The British Psychological Society's Research Digest asked 23 top psychologists to write 150 words on their nagging questions about themselves. From human consciousness, to death and forgiveness, to the dark Dalek-y corners of the mind, the answers are a great read--and an excellent place to jump into asking similar questions about ourselves.
What You Still Don't Know About You

Turn Your PC into a Home Surveillance System

If you're interested in building out a serious, multi-camera home surveillance system complete with wireless cameras, weblog MakeUseOf details how to do so.
Turn Your PC into a Home Surveillance System

Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App

On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products. Today, the WolframAlpha iPhone app (iTunes link) — which was built using the new API — was released to the App Store.
Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App

Top 5 Twitter Trends to Watch Right Now

We’ve been taking an active analytical look at emerging Twitter related trends on a monthly basis. This month instead of analyzing the state of the Twittersphere on our own, we thought we’d give some of the web’s most experimental, influential, and knowledgeable thought leaders an opportunity to share their perspectives on Twitter trends.
Top 5 Twitter Trends to Watch Right Now

Top 10 Time-Saving, MacGyver Cleaning Tricks

Very few people truly enjoy spending time cleaning, and fewer still love buying expensive cleaners for every little task. Here's a handful of clever, time-saving DIY substitutes for common household cleaning jobs.
Top 10 Time-Saving, MacGyver-Style Cleaning Tricks

Nominate Walkable Spaces for the Street View Trike

Google's Street View cars can't drive everywhere, and especially through some of the most interesting walkable destinations around. One engineer came up with a solution in the form of a Street View Trike, a bike with an image capture trailer attached. Check out a few of the places captured for virtual tours so far, like Legoland California, and nominate other walkable spots for the trike to capture.
Nominate Walkable Spaces for the Street View Trike

10 Very Common Stupid Tricks That Wreck A Good Life

Many people go through life acting like trained circus animals. They repeat the same antics they observed their neighbors, parents and family performing. What they often don’t realize is that they are wrecking their lives.
10 Very Common Stupid Tricks That Wreck A Good Life

Top 10 iPhone Apps as Judged by Mashable Readers

Mashable: Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked your favorite iPhone apps.
Top 10 iPhone Apps as Judged by Mashable Readers

HOW TO: Organize an Event on Facebook

This guide will show you how to successfully run an event on Facebook.
HOW TO: Organize an Event on Facebook

Seven Tips If You’re Chronically Late

Feeling as though you’re always running twenty minutes behind schedule is an unhappy feeling. Having to rush, forgetting things in your haste, dealing with annoyed people when you arrive…it’s no fun.
Seven Tips If You’re Chronically Late

Clothes no cover for airport scanner

A human x-ray machine which produces "naked" images of passengers is being tested at an airport in Britain. Here's a video of how it works from Scientific American.
Clothes no cover for airport scanner

Want to Remotely Start Your Car? There's an App for That

If you live some place where it gets really cold in the winter — you might already be familiar with the advantages and convenience of a remote-start car system. Rather than fumbling to open an icy door or waiting a few minutes for the car to start and the heat to come on, you can start the car using a keyremote and even turn the heat on, so that by the time you get to the car, it’s on and warm.
Want to Remotely Start Your Car? There's an App for That

The Forgetful Mind

Whenever I have a stray thought that might be useful at all to remember later, I jot it down in a “thought notebook” and then review it later, usually a couple of reviews a day. Figuring this out has truly been world-changing to me. It’s helped me to retain good ideas, remember to do certain things, and record data that I’ll need later on (like addresses and phone numbers and such).
The Forgetful Mind

The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing

Any conversation with Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web’s bedrock software standards, tends to be fast-paced and nonlinear. A historical question then. If he were do it over again today, would he do anything differently? Any regrets?
The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing

The 2009 Nobel Prizes

Explore the advances that earned this year's crop of Nobelists one of the world's most famous prizes--and in some cases, read about the prizewinning discoveries as chronicled by the researchers themselves in Scientific American.
The 2009 Nobel Prizes: In-Depth Reports

A cure for jet lag?

A pill that cures jet lag is a step closer today, after scientists discovered how signals from the brain control our biological clocks.
A cure for jet lag?

20 Fantastic Free iPhone Apps for Parents

It’s hard to believe that a little device that’s the size of your hand can actually help parents become more organized, time-efficient, knowledgeable, even relaxed. However, that’s the beauty of an iPhone. The key, though, is to find the right apps to get you there, and with so many choices (more than 75,000), it takes time and effort to find good ones.
20 Fantastic Free iPhone Apps for Parents

Top 10 Reminder Tools for Forgetful Minds

Tweak your workflow and inboxes all you want, but your mental memory might always be the weakest link in your day-to-day life. These 10 tools take some of the workload off your brain, and prevent a few forehead slaps.
Top 10 Reminder Tools for Forgetful Minds

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 30 - October 11, 2009

The latest issue of new family friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 30 - October 11, 2009